Oil slicks from sunken tanker Sanchi cover area larger than Paris

19/01/2018

The slick covers an area of 101 square kilometers (39 square miles), after nearly doubling in size from the start of the week, according to figures released Wednesday by the Chinese State Oceanic Administration.

The spill has caused major concerns about damage to the nearby marine ecosystem.

The office is attempting to "control the spread of the oil spill and is carrying out work to estimate its impact on the marine ecological environment", it said on its website.

The Zhoushan fishing area contains the Zhoushan archipelagos, with a population of almost one million, including over 300,000 fishermen. The remaining 29 crew of the ship are presumed dead.

The slick is meandering across an area about 35 km (21.8 miles) long and 28 km (17.4 miles) wide, with a width of between 200 metres and 300 metres, the coast guard said in a statement after observing the area with a patrol ship and an airplane.

The area where the ship went down is an important spawning ground for species including the swordtip squid and a wintering ground for species like the yellow croaker and blue crab, among many others, according to Greenpeace.

They said divers might also be able to pump out oil from the 85,000-ton vessels' fuel tanks before they leak and contaminate the seabed. The ships caught fire and, powered by the nearly 150,000 tons of crude aboard the Sanchi, this inferno raged for over a week before the tanker finally sank.

Condensate oil's high volatility means it evaporates more easily than heavier crudes.

"Until there is a clear steer on monitoring, I wouldn't touch any fish that might have passed through this area because it might be contaminated", Simon Boxall of the University of Southampton told the Guardian.

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